I (Harsha Vardhan Nemani) first interviewed for Precog at the start of my fourth semester—armed with little more than curiosity, some enthusiasm, and the vague sense that research might be worth exploring. The interview, to put it mildly, didn’t go particularly well. I walked out convinced I’d missed my chance. For months, I assumed that door had quietly closed. Then, unexpectedly, Prof. PK reached out. He had a project that happened to align closely with my personal interest in finance, and just like that, I found myself at Precog. What followed was not instant productivity. I spent nearly two years doing what could generously be described as “figuring things out”—switching…

Ok so I (Raghav) haven’t written blogs per se before so please cut me some slack if something’s off here, but here goes, hope you find it interesting : ) My journey at Precog begins with me in H-105 (classroom in IIITH) at the annual Precog info session. I’m there with a few of my friends – Wait, but before we get to this, let’s talk a bit about why I landed up at that info session in the first place. So this was around the end of second year, there’s a lot of chatter going around about BTPs or research and which lab you want to choose. This is…

I am Shashwat Singh, I was a CLD at IIIT. I am about to join NYU CDS as a PhD student to research the science of foundational models. This is a very exciting time to be in the space of foundational models, no-one knows what they’re doing and any work to shed light on how to best model intelligence has a chance to be very useful and impactful for the foreseeable future. Precog is one of the best places in India to do foundational work in AI because PK has designed the lab culture to be one where wild ideas and motivated people flourish.  Joining   One of the first conversations…

A TLDR? The best decision of my life – personally and academically. And I am thankful to every single person who made it so. The Beginning The first question that most people asked me when I joined PreCog as a Research Assistant was how I found out about PreCog. It was a funny story. I was looking through CSRankings in September 2023, trying to shortlist universities for MS in fall 2024. I was half-minded about it- join MS immediately or get more research experience before I apply. During this process, a random thought of checking the university rankings in India occurred to me. Then I proceeded to check (read: stalk)…

I usually don’t remember a lot of things, but what PK said to me on my first day at Precog has stuck with me. “I am on my own journey, it’s your decision whether you want to join me or not”. It might not seem a lot, but to me, that was a challenge. Can I really maximise this opportunity I have been given? Two A* first-author papers, two workshop papers and one best paper award later, as I prepare to join the University of Cambridge, I can confidently say I maximised my opportunity to the limit. Throughout my two years at Precog, I learnt many things, but the most…

Who am I? Hello! Rahul here, and you might find my journey to be quite an interesting (and likely, unique) one! I entered IIIT-H through the CHD program, a combination of Computer Science and Humanities that shaped the way I think about technology and society. My research began with an ethnographic lens, studying toxicity in the gaming world. In addition to that, I also wanted to build something that could directly impact the issue I was studying. One interesting topic I remember reading about Precog back then was Fake News Detection (look for papers at) which really got my curiosity! This is what led me to explore computational approaches that…

Hi! I’m Varshita. I graduated from IIIT Hyderabad this year (2025) as a CND (B.Tech in Computer Science and Master of Science in Computational Natural Sciences by Research) student after a very meaningful but less-than-a-year stint as a dual degree student at Precog. My time at Precog, however, goes way back to Monsoon 2022. Precogger by proximity My introduction to the Precog lab’s culture began by accident, co-working alongside some of its members and my friends in the recently vacated and under-renovation T-Hub space -It was a trove of playful interiors, couches that rats loved to snack on, glass whiteboards, and panoramic windows that let in the thick monsoon winds…

Before joining Precog, I was sure that I would be an engineer. I didn’t have clear plans for the future, but I thought research wasn’t for me. This blog is about how Precog taught me how to conduct research and thrive in an environment of uncertainty. How it started It all started in at the end of 2-1 when Haran (a good friend of mine) asked me which lab I was planning to join. I told him, “There is no way I could do research. I’ll do a BTP or work on a software engineering project” and he was genuinely shocked. After some back and forth, he convinced me to…